Industrial Design in Vietnam

If you have a industrial design and would like to register it, SBLaw would like to inform you some information about protecting your industrial design in Vietnam for your reference:

SBLAW would like to provide the client the legal procedure to register industrial design in Vietnam as follows: 1. Procedure  Protection criteria: A industrial design shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Industrial Design when it satisfies the following conditions: Being novel Being of an inventive...

  The fee for filling an industrial design application in Vietnam. In order to file an industrial design application in Vietnam, the applicant has to pay the following fee: 1.1.Fee for filing an application for industrial design application (*) - Additional charge for each additional variation from 2nd one 1.2. Claiming priority right (for each...

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.

The fee for filling an industrial design application in Vietnam.

Filing the Vietnam Industrial design application is carried out as following:

Before the NOIP issues any of notices specified at Point 17.1.a of this Circular, an applicant may request the NOIP to record the transfer of his/her application to another person.

If the applicant to whom the NOIP has sent a notice on its intended refusal of the application fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors or makes no opposition or makes unreasonable opposition to the intended rejection within the set time limit,the NOIP shall send a notice on its refusal of the application[...]

If client would like to file an industrial design in Vietnam, SBLaw would like to provide our guidance as follows:

Question:  I would like to register some furniture designs in Vietnam. Please an example of the paper work of my designs (4 pages with technical drawing). Could you advise the cost per designs and time scale to register such designs in Vietnam? Thank you Answer:  Regarding your enquiry concerning the subject matter,...

1. Definition Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipments, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,...

An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]

SBLaw would like to provide legal service for filling industrial design in Vietnam as follows:

Under Vietnam IP Law, Industrial design means the outward appearance of a product embodied in three dimensional configuration, lines, colours or a combination of such elements